Forrest and 'Mama Linda' Jarrett stand on the back porch of the Marshall Depot. She died in 2002, and was instrumental in the depot's survival.

Written by

Rob Neufeld
| Visiting Our Past

In 1966, Uncle Sam took the U.S. mail off passenger trains and began to move it by truck and plane. Passenger service came to a halt in many towns over the next 20 years, and depots tumbled. But not the one in Marshall.

Madison County native Forrest Jarrett, Norfolk Southern director of police in the 1980s, got a call from his mother, "Mama Linda."